Dear Friends of FAIR,
As political activism increasingly infiltrates K-12 classrooms across the country, FAIR has developed comprehensive legal tools to help parents promote fairness, mutual respect, and constitutional equality in their children’s schools.
This week, high schoolers in Minneapolis joined anti-ICE protests during school hours. Training documents suggest these student walkouts are being coordinated by activist organizations that sponsor K-12 school clubs and partner with major teachers’ unions. Students are being offered “walkout guides,” “day of action” strategies, and training materials — all during a time when fewer than half of Minnesota students are proficient at their grade levels.
Schools are meant to be safe places for learning, not recruiting grounds for political activism. And Minneapolis is just one example of a troubling national trend.
From February 2-6, thousands of school districts nationwide will observe Black Lives Matter at School’s “Week of Action,” implementing lesson plans that may violate federal civil rights law by creating racially hostile learning environments.
The BLM at School curriculum teaches pre-kindergarten children that “our country has a racist history grounded in white privilege” and instructs fifth graders that Black people receive “overt and subliminal messages about being bad, ugly, and inferior to White people.” Other materials claim the nuclear family is an example of “whiteness/white supremacy.”
These lessons don’t just divide students; they may be illegal. They assign characteristics and blame to children based on skin color, creating the “racially hostile environments” that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act was designed to prevent. Recent Executive Orders and Department of Education guidance make clear: schools using such materials risk losing federal funding.
FAIR’s approach combines legal accountability with our signature civil discourse principles. We acknowledge what BLM at School organizers are trying to accomplish: addressing legitimate racial disparities, teaching Black history honestly and comprehensively, and creating authentically inclusive schools. These are goals we all share.
But we’re also concerned that BLM’s methods undermine these very objectives while violating constitutional principles of equal protection.
FAIR is responding with solutions, not just criticism. That’s why we’ve created this comprehensive toolkit to give parents the resources they need to respond effectively.
FAIR’s BLM at School Week Toolkit includes:
Legal primer explaining how discriminatory curriculum violates Title VI
Sample OCR complaint ready to file if students experience hostile environments
Template letter for parents to send to school administrators
“Steel-manning” section that teaches the competing perspectives before explaining our constitutional approach
Family talking points grounded in Martin Luther King Jr.’s principles, contact theory research, and civil rights history
Parents often tell us they feel powerless when their children encounter divisive activism masquerading as education. This toolkit provides the tangible resources parents need to advocate against discriminatory curriculum.
The BLM at School Week Toolkit is available now for free download. But producing these essential materials to support parents and address the broader trend of classroom activism requires resources — and your partnership.
Your investment directly funds the tools parents need to reclaim their schools from organizations using children as political pawns. Specifically, your support will:
Expand our toolkit library to address other discriminatory curricula beyond BLM at School Week
Provide legal support to parents who file OCR complaints
Develop additional resources like our American Experience Curriculum, a constitutional alternative that teaches racial history and contemporary issues while building civil discourse skills
Train Chapter Leaders and parent advocates to effectively engage with school boards
Monitor school compliance with new federal civil rights guidance
Schools should be focused on academic excellence, not political indoctrination. At a time when student achievement continues to decline, our children deserve classrooms that unite rather than divide, that teach critical thinking rather than activist ideology, and that treat every student with equal dignity under the law.
Donate today to help FAIR provide resources that stop discrimination in schools. Every dollar makes a difference!
Together, we can ensure schools remain places of learning and genuine inclusion, not training grounds for divisive movements that put ideology above education.
With gratitude,
Monica Harris
Executive Director
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School districts that promote political activism during school hours, or that is coordinated by school employees should be the subjects of lawsuits. A few hefty settlements would bring them around to obeying Civil Rights legislation.
And yet NOBODY teaches pre-kindergarten children that “our country has a sexist history grounded in male privilege” and instructs fifth graders that women receive “overt and subliminal messages about being bad, ugly, and inferior to men.”
Gee.
I wonder why.